Re: Xen 4.7 Development Update

["Chun Yan Liu" <cyliu@suse.com>]

>>> On 1/4/2016 at 06:15 PM, in message <E1aG2AL-0002OH-Qy@zion>, Wei Liu
<wei.liu2@citrix.com> wrote: 
> This email only tracks big items for xen.git tree. Please reply for items you 
> woulk like to see in 4.7 so that people have an idea what is going on and 
> prioritise accordingly. 
>  
> You're welcome to provide description and use cases of the feature you're 
> working on. 
>  
> = Timeline = 
>  
> We now adopt a fixed cut-off date scheme. We will release twice a 
> year. The upcoming 4.7 timeline are as followed: 
>  
> * Last posting date: March 18, 2016 
> * Hard code freeze: April 1, 2016 
> * RC1: TBD 
> * Release: June 3, 2016 
>  
> Note that we don't have freeze exception scheme anymore. All patches 
> that wish to go into 4.7 must be posted no later than the last posting 
> date. All patches posted after that date will be automatically queued 
> into next release. 
>  
> RCs will be arranged immediately after freeze. 
>  
> = Projects = 
>  
> == Hypervisor ==  
>  
> *  Use Kconfig to configure hypervisor components 
>   -  Doug Goldstein 
>  
> === x86 ===  
>  
> *  CPUID handling improvement 
>   -  Andrew Cooper 
>  
> *  VMWare tools support 
>   -  Don Slutz 
>  
> *  xSplice, hypervisor hot-patching 
>   -  Konrad Wilk 
>   -  Ross Lagerwall 
>  
> *  Porting Intel PState driver 
>   -  Wei Wang 
>  
> *  HVM-nodm support 
>   -  Roger Pau Monne 
>  
> *  Posted interrupt 
>   -  Wu, Feng 
>  
> *  VMX TSC scaling support 
>   -  Haozhong Zhang 
>  
> *  VT-d asynchronous flush issue 
>   -  Quan Xu 
>  
> *  Memory protection-key support 
>   -  Huaitong Han 
>  
> === ARM ===  
>  
> *  Guest save / restore support 
>   -  Ian Campbell 
>  
> == Toolstack ==  
>  
> *  Make it easy to run xenstore in a domain 
>   -  Juergen Gross 
>  
> *  Libxc support for migrating large PV domains 
>   -  Juergen Gross 
>  
> *  Disentangle libxenctrl to stable libraries 
>   -  Ian Campbell 
>  
> *  Libxl PVSCSI support 
>   -  Olaf Hering 
>  
> *  PV USB passthrough 
>   -  Chunyan Liu 

Reviewed by George Dunlap.
V12:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-12/msg02697.html

>  
> *  HVM USB passthrough 
>   -  George Dunlap 
>  
> *  QEMU based PVUSB backend 
>   -  Juergen Gross 
>  
> *  Domain snapshot API 
>   -  Chunyan Liu 

Doc:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-08/msg00884.html

RFC implementation, has many limitations, call for comments:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-08/msg02384.html

Chunyan

>  
> *  Fix hotplug script machinery and remove blktap 
>   -  George Dunlap 
>  
> *  Basic xSplice tooling (see hypervisor item) 
>   -  Konrad Wilk 
>  
> *  Load BIOS via toolstack 
>   -  Anthony Perard 
>  
> *  Libxl depriv QEMU 
>   -  Ian Jackson 
>  
> *  COLO 
>   -  Wen Congyang 
>  
> == Documentation ==  
>  
> *  Feature maturity lifecycle 
>   -  Lars Kurth 
>  
> == Completed ==  
>  
> *  vgic-v3 
>   -  Julien Grall 
>  
> *  xsave/xrtors support 
>   -  Shuai Ruan 
>  
> *  Toolstack-based soft reset 
>   -  Vitaly Kuznetsov 
>  
> *  Libxc support for building large PV domains 
>   -  Juergen Gross 
>  
> *  Run QEMU as non-root 
>   -  Stefano Stabellini 
>  
> *  Intel CDP support 
>   -  He Chen 
>  
>  
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